About Me

Hello! Welcome to my blog “Wealthymatters”.

Wealth fascinates me.Wealth-building takes up all my waking hours.Perhaps my sleep time too! I am working towards building my first 100 crores. Why 100, you ask? Well, because I once heard that the first 100 crores and having a 100 people you can call upon to do what you need done, is the beginning of all things greater. Perhaps a smaller figure and way more automation may also achieve the same magic,……..Who knows?……I’m testing that still. Anyways, the journey so far has profoundly changed me, taken me to places I never imagined I’d go to and into the presence of people I would not have otherwise have thought of connecting with. And what a journey its been so far!

If you are a new to the blog,do read this post to get an idea of my take on wealth:Link.That way you will know where I am coming from while you read the current posts.Posts are arranged category wise and date wise and there is a search box to quickly lead you to older posts of interest to you. In Library I file away general sort of evergreen information and ideas I believe are important to build and preserve wealth .wealthymatters has deeply personal origins.3 of my 4 grandparents grew up as orphans, raised by relatives and all 4 of my grandparents have stories of loss of ancestral businesses on account of being managed by inexpert children without the requisite wisdom, who had no benefit learning how the family business was run from the preceding generation. All my life I’ve watched my parent’s generation rebuild the family assets from scratch and in the last 20years,my generation has started joining them. The march is long and hard. It’s much better to simply appreciate one’s good fortune and not act in ways that destroy what others have lovingly built for us. wealthymatters began as a personal diary I wrote to speak to my heirs, should I not be round long enough to counsel them. Library has the posts I’d rather they did not miss reading. I believe that real wealth is not a zero-sum game. Hence wealthymatters is public. Toolkit has a collection of tools of use in wealth building.Paper Assets,Precious Metals,Philanthropy,Entrepreneurship and Tidbits are self explanatory categories. Alternative Assets is a sort of residual category and contains posts on Passion Assets,Real Estate,Gems,Commodities etc.

Being wealthy allows a person to have the means to afford a lifestyle of their personal choice without having to actively work at a job to get the cash to do so.There is no question of saying no to things you’d love to do simply because there is no money,time or energy.Not being forced to work at a job to make ends meet,means having the freedom to not have to be at someone else’s beck and call, to not have to work on someone else’s schedule and to not have to subsume one’s priorities to someone else’s priorities. Basically you get to live the life you choose rather than the life someone else chooses for you.

Given my fascination with wealth , I spend a lot of time reading up , thinking about and working at wealth building.In the course of these activities I come across a lot of fascinating tidbits , insights and nifty tools I record in “Wealthymatters”. I hope my scrap booking helps you on your way to becoming wealthy.If you find a post useful please leave me a comment,I would love know I’ve been of help to someone somewhere.Also feel free to ask questions and suggest topics for posting . I will do the best I can to blog on the topics of interest to my readers.

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I am conducting a small survey and asking as you are in investment space since long, just wanted to ask you in your opinion who are the best fund managers(pms category or just non mutual fund) or with regards stock picking ability in India according to you, your Best/Top 5 in the list please… who are THE best in stock picking in India…

Mukesh,personally I rely on my own research to invest and am open to only 2 other sources for discussing Indian stock ideas.1.) Is a friend and fellow blogger,a VC,who got his interest from his uncle’s results from long term investing. Perhaps out of 10Stocks he’d find valuable,I’d be willing to invest in 2 of them as they’d meet my investment criteria. Unfortunately this person gave up blogging a while back out of frustration 2.) Is a pseudonymous blogger,who has a private blog. He’s invested privately in the Indian markets for over 35years. The blog is his record of his investments and his thoughts at various points in time. I discovered his blog 7-8 years back when he linked to mine over a series I did back then about lessons to be learnt from the legends of investing. As we have independently zeroed in on the same stocks,and for similar reasons,I use this resource to reassure myself that I’m not indulging in too much wishful thinking.

Of the institutional investors I’ve personally met over the years,I’d be inclined to give Kenneth Andrade a half ear for I found him given to more measured speech in one of the Kotak events.A stark change from his bosses speaking in hyperboles in praise of a few ministers.Same event where the organizers felt what I consider realism,pessimism.One of the risk-managers at ICICI,I didn’t get his name.Showed us how a pharma company used Russian entities to pad up their figures….And then there was the very tight lipped CIO of Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance-He wont speak more than he thinks prudent,but the returns he delivered on my debt purchase,makes me OK with his silence.

A partition deed has been executed last year by my father and his brothers and their children in the bigger HUF. Properties inherited by them from my grand father,Selfacquired properties bought in their joint and individual names,property in our name was all pooled together and partitioned into four parts with our part having my father and his three sons as parties.The question is wether the properties go to my fathers HUF singly or to all our four HUF or to all four of us individually.After a few months unfortunately my father passed away intestate. What will be the best mode of holding the property i.e HUF ownership or Individual ownership and how to go about it. I shall be thankfull to you for all the help extended.

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